‘I am on the road to Tombuctoo’

From Standing Room Only, 1:45 pm on 11 June 2017

Intrepid travel is a tourist slogan you hear a lot these days... but a new exhibition in Dunedin reminds us what 'intrepid' truly means. Intrepid Journeys: Traveling with the Hakluyt Society tells the stories of hundreds of adventurers, those who failed and who succeeded in their quests to venture into uncharted and dangerous territory over hundreds of years. The University of Otago's Special Collections Librarian, Dr. Donald Kerr tells Lynn Freeman more.